Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud

Sight Machine; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Health Care Coverage

Flexible Vacation Policy

Hybrid work flexibility

Catered Lunches

Commuter Savings Program

Company Outings

Life Insurance

Job summary

Sight Machine is a fast-growing innovator in manufacturing data analytics, seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to lead reliability and scalability for our cloud platform. You will own IaC, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, while guiding architecture decisions for AI workloads.

This is a senior IC role where you mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate across teams to deliver dependable services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with Kubernetes/Docker in cloud environments.
• 10+ years coding in Python/Java/Go or similar.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Champion an agentic AI-first engineering mindset and AI-driven automation, with quality and reliability in production systems.
• Evolve reliability practices to meet SLOs and drive postmortems to systemic fixes, leading reliability reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex, cross-layer problems across CI/CD, containers, networking, OS, cloud resources, databases, and AI workloads.
• Design, build, and operate infrastructure supporting agentic AI workloads, including LLM gateways and orchestration frameworks.
• Architect and instrument monitoring, alerting, and observability for critical services with an AI focus.
• Write and improve runbooks and automation, integrating AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil.
• Design and build internal platforms and developer tooling used by engineers.
• Participate in on-call coverage and scale the program with defined escalation paths.

Skills

Mentorship

Communication

Bias for action

Problem solving

Clear communicator

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

FluxCD

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Sentry

Signoz

Postgres

Java

Python

Jenkins

Kafka

Job description

Sight Machine is a fast-growing innovator in manufacturing data analytics, seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to lead reliability and scalability for our cloud platform. You will own IaC, CI/CD, observability, and incident response, while guiding architecture decisions for AI workloads.

This is a senior IC role where you mentor engineers, shape technical direction, and collaborate across teams to deliver dependable services.